Gallup: Obama’s approval rating hits another record low

President Obama’s average approval rating sank to a new low of 41% in the 11^th financial quarter of his term, according to a new analysis of Gallup’s daily tracking poll.

That number is down six percentage points from Obama’s 10^th quarter average, and is the lowest 11^th quarter average posted by a sitting president since Jimmy Carter, who lost his reelection bid in 1980. (Carter’s approval average that quarter was 31%.)

Obama’s average approval rating over his entire term is now 50%.

Gallup’s Jeffrey M. Jones notes that while the 11th quarter was so far Obama’s worst, the 12^th- and 13^th- quarter averages will be better indicators of his reelection prospects. Those averages historically “give a strong indication of whether he will win a second term,” Jones wrote in a summary of Gallup’s findings.

Of 262 presidential quarters in which Gallup has calculated average presidential job approval ratings, the 11^th quarter of Obama’s term ranks 220^th.

kim.geiger@latimes.com